Piatigorsky Cup Quotes & Sayings

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway. — Lee Hall

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times. — Seth Godin

In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense. — Sarah Hall

In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible. — Ruben Blades

A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be. An end, on the contrary, is that which itself naturally follows some other thing, either by necessity, or as a rule, but has nothing following it. A middle is that which follows something as some other thing follows it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles. — Aristotle.

I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it. — Grimes

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. — Arne Duncan

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die. — Mortimer J. Adler

For the record, Caro?" "Yeah?" "Hard as a fucking rock. — Robin York

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth. — James W. Sire

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words. — Henry Rollins

I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called 'My Boo,' and my music teacher got me to sing a duet with a friend of mine, and I remember being so nervous because I loved to sing, but I could never fathom singing by myself. And when I did that, I remember how proud I was of myself. I was 12. — Seinabo Sey